Today’s Headlines
More California headlines at Streetsblog LA and Streetsblog SF
8:36 AM PDT on July 16, 2015
- Oakland gets anonymous $34 million gift (Visalia Times)
- Modesto moves ahead with road diet (Modesto Bee)
- Alameda gets $2 million grant for new park (Contra Costa Times)
- The public health implications of taking Level of Service out of CEQA (Planetizen)
- Driver cellphone use increasing in California (Sacramento Bee)
- Judge to Uber: give up the data, or stop work in California and pay a big fine (LA Times)
- There are no accidents (Gizmodo)
- Three wins for bikes in US Senate transportation bill (League of American Bicyclists)
- Chair of CA housing finance agency will step down amid controversy over evictions (East Bay Express)
- Minneapolis eliminates minimum parking requirements for housing near transit (Vox)
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